Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [modal v] never [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you think I 'll never be deeply in love , I said . |
| 2 | Doctors say she may never be able to walk or talk , and there 's no cure for her blindness . |
| 3 | Sixteen is a bad age at which to know one will never be a genius . |
| 4 | But doctors say we 'll never be a healthy nation until we start to deal with the problems of teenagers . |
| 5 | The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land . |
| 6 | Even when made up with the finest cosmetics money could buy it would never be beautiful , but still … not bad for an ugly duckling , Sally thought , smiling wryly . |
| 7 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 8 | United we will never be defeated . |
| 9 | At the Delphi Centre pupils are told that whatever happens they will never be suspended ( except in the case of persistent truancy ) . |
| 10 | A quietly cultivated , top-of-the-head English don , incurably in the grip of the Oxford Disease — that tragic malady which deludes its victims into believing they can never be wrong in any matter of knowledge or opinion . |
| 11 | She says he 'll never be coming home . |
| 12 | I says my god I says it 'll never be known that my brother said that you can be anything and that was first thing he ever gave me . |
| 13 | ‘ God between us and all harm , Terry , I hope it 'll never be needed , but they have to be prepared . ’ |
| 14 | PAMELA : I hope it will never be lumbered again . |
| 15 | He was not dead , but not far off dead — and 't was said he 'd never be the same again . |
| 16 | We both have very firm views on relay racing which can never be reconciled . |
| 17 | They were told she would never be able to walk . |
| 18 | There had been times when she had thought she would never be able to put herself back together . |
| 19 | I regularly get total signal failure and if I followed some of the compass courses displayed I would never be heard of again . |
| 20 | Now I know I shall never be rich , or important . |
| 21 | The little trees in the hedges on each side of the path reached out to each other across it like the opposing factions at a wedding : the families of the bride and groom which will never be united but must maintain a truce , unnaturally bound by the exigent complicity of the couple . |
| 22 | When she had a piece within her I said , ‘ Maria , you can turn away from me and sing , because I know you will never be one tiny part of a bar out . ’ |
| 23 | I was so terrified of losing him , for I sensed there would never be another love like this in my life . |
| 24 | Let's hope that UEFA remember there must never be one rule for the big boys and another for the rest . |
| 25 | I mean , of course they can , they can make all sorts of wild promises and all kinds of crazy policies because they know they 'll never be called upon to carry them out . |
| 26 | The scientists at Wallingford know they 'll never be able to tame the sea but they hope their new wave basin will help them find ways of making its effects less destructive . |
| 27 | ‘ I know it can never be . |
| 28 | ‘ You know it can never be . ’ |
| 29 | People used to believe ( permit me this , one last one ) that once you activated the Capellan drive it could never be entirely deactivated again , not until it suffered ruin or physical destruction . |
| 30 | But I 've always known I could never be a professional jockey because I could n't make the weight . |